{"id":20988,"date":"2023-03-13T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20988"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:08:04","slug":"covering-new-weight-loss-drugs-could-strain-medicare-policy-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20988","title":{"rendered":"Covering new weight loss drugs could strain Medicare, policy experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Elaine Chen for Stat News on March 11, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergence of highly effective\u00a0obesity drugs\u00a0has spurred renewed efforts to get Medicare to pay for weight loss medications, but a group of health policy experts is sounding caution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/03\/11\/new-weight-loss-drugs-wegovy-medicare\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"wp-image-4820\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elaine Chen for Stat News on March 11, 2023 The emergence of highly effective\u00a0obesity drugs\u00a0has spurred renewed efforts to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,6,15],"tags":[65,301,518],"class_list":["post-20988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-prescription-drug-coverage","tag-weight-loss-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20989,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions\/20989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}